﻿This grows in clayey and rather alkaline soil in desert 

 places, and always seems to have white flowers; the pods 

 frequently have the papery surface split away from the 

 woody inner wall, especially at the sutures after the fash- 

 ion of A. c/cadce. 



Astragalus Zionis. 



No. 5261W. May 17, 1894, Springdale, Utah, 4000° 

 alt., in red sand. 



No. 5249I1. May 16, same locality. 



No. 5 22 4 d. May 15, 1894, Rockville, Utah, in red 

 sand, 4000 alt. 



No. 5001b. March 30, 1S94, Bellevue, Utah, in red 

 sand at 3600 alt. 



No. 5239. May 16, 1894, Springdale, Utah, 4000° 

 alt., in red sand. 



No. 52 49g . Same date and locality. 



This is a tufted perennial with the habit of A. ampku 

 oxys, but more slender, while the spreading, rather longer 

 pubescence of very delicate hairs is fixed by the base and 

 not by the middle as in that species; stipules very broad, 

 1-2 long, adnate to the petiole but free from each other, 

 hyaline below; stems densely tufted from a deep, peren- 

 nial, erect root, wholly herbaceous, with nodes 3' long or 

 less ascending; leaves 5-12' long, with petiole about % 

 the length and slender; leaflets about 10 pairs ovate to 

 lanceolate, 6" long, very acute, not contiguous ; peduncles 

 about as long as the leaves, and the rachis % as long as 

 the peduncle; pods ascenrlino- ar-o„o* 1. ^ , 



' F Uft dS >^naing, arcuate, abruptly long- 

 acute, with flat subulate style, linear-oblong, 2" wide and 

 about 1% long, a trifle sulcate and rather triangular in 

 cross -section, at least when dry, but when fresh much 

 rounded, ventral suture not raised but pod much flattened 

 on each side of it, narrow below, sessile, with a complete 

 joint at base, short-shaggy, mottled> pubescence very 



